Tehama County unemployment drops to 10.1 percent

RED BLUFF &GT;&GT; Tehama County's unemployment dropped for the first time in four months and is just mere percentage points away from falling into single digits for the first time in more than five years.

According to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Department Tehama County's unemployment rate dropped to 10.1 percent in April.

That matches the rate seen in December 2013, which had been a new five-year low for the county.

The unemployment had ticked up since then to 11.7 percent in March.

That figure fell when Tehama County added 60 new jobs in the last month and the civilian labor force was recalculated at 24,720, a drop of 370 from the previous month.

Only the wholesale trade industry was listed as seeing a net job loss from March to April. Although it's job figures are up 24 percent in the county within the past year.

A year ago across all industries Tehama's unemployment rate was 12 percent.

The occupations with the most jobs advertisements in Tehama County in April were for registered nurses, tutors, first line supervisors of retail sales workers, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers and farm workers.

A+ Educational Center, Dignity Health, the National Park Service, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and Walmart were the employers with the most job ads.

Tehama's drop echoed those seen in California and across the nation.

California's unemployment rate fell from an estimated 8.4 to 7.3 percent from March to April, while the federal jobless rate dropped 0.9 percentage points to 5.9 percent.